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Shakespeare's Boy Actors.

Stock Code 109292

London, J.M. Dent, 1939

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The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket.

First edition; 8vo; 9 black and white plates, including frontispiece, text block slightly age-toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark blue top stain, light rubbing to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with loss, a few small closed tears and creases along top edge, evidence of sticker removed from rear panel affecting text, vertical line in pencil close to spine; a very good clean copy overall.

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Shakespeare's Boy Actors.

DAVIES, W. Robertson.

Stock code: 109292

$1,500.00

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